tractable
tractable
Definition
trac·table (trak′tə bəl)
adjective
- easily managed, taught, or controlled; docile; compliant
- easily worked; malleable
Etymology: L tractabilis < tractare, to drag, haul, freq. of trahere, to draw
trac′·tabil′·ity noun or trac′·table·ness
trac′·tably adverb
tractable
Synonyms
tractable
modif.
tractable
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: In order to make such models tractable, we require that they have finite domains.
- keep: In order to keep the evaluation process tractable, an " evaluated configuration " is defined that scopes the evaluation effort.
- render: In the project I use computational metalanguage to denote and so render these names computationally tractable.
Modifies a noun
- subproblems: Almost all known tractable subproblems are either structural or relational.
- model: Pre-requisite Energy 1 Learning outcomes 1 Development of techniques to generate tractable models of real systems.
- language: In the second part we consider a new relational reduction to tractable constraint languages.
- problem: In this paper we identify a restricted set of constraints which gives rise to a class of tractable problems.
- system: Therefore animal approaches, especially with tractable systems, will continue to be essential in the foreseeable future.
- subclass: Tractable lifted problems can explain known tractability results as well as generate new tractable subclasses.
Modifying Another Word
- computationally: It may be necessary to use mixture models to capture aspects of the within-group infection process in a computationally tractable manner [ 3 ] .
- analytically: Traditional models generally assume very simple functional forms for f i, in order to have analytically tractable expressions for g t.
- mathematically: It is straightforward to show students that the only mathematically tractable way forward is to minimize the squared error or the mean squared error.
- not: However, the computation time to perform a complete search is not tractable.
- genetically: The organism can be cultured under defined conditions The organism is genetically tractable -- e.g. , transformable, prone to introduction of designed mutations.
- very: Even at an elementary level one can often use complex numbers to solve problems which are otherwise not very tractable.
Used with adjective complement
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